Indian War in the Pacific Northwest: The Journal of Lieutenant Lawrence Kip
Throughout the 1850s, Native peoples of the inland Northwest actively resisted white encroachments into their traditional territories. Tensions exploded in 1858 when nearly one thousand Palouses, Spokanes, and Coeur d'Alenes routed an invading force commanded by Colonel Edward Steptoe. In response, Colonel George Wright mounted a large expedition into the heart of the Columbia Plateau to punish and subdue its Native peoples. Opposing Wright's force was a loose confederacy of tribes led by the famous warrior Kamiakin.Indian War in the Pacific Northwest is a vivid and valuable first-person account of that aggressive and bloody military campaign…
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Weitere Autoren: Trafzer, Clifford E. (Solist)
- ISBN: 978-0-8032-7791-5
- EAN: 9780803277915
- Produktnummer: 9261402
- Verlag: Univ Of Nebraska Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1999
- Seitenangabe: 151 S.
- Masse: H20.1 cm x B13.5 cm x D1.0 cm 200 g
- Gewicht: 200
Über den Autor
Clifford E. Trafzer, a professor of history at the University of California, Riverside, is the coauthor of Renegade Tribe: The Palouse Indians and the Invasion of the Inland Pacific Northwest.
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